News Articles for "Toxic Waste"
Potential uranium port sparks fears for Barrier Reef
The United Nations' world heritage advisory body has expressed serious concerns with the Queensland Government's potential plans to export uranium across t...
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Rights group urges probe into Thai activist death
An international human-rights group on Wednesday urged Thailand to investigate the slaying of an environmentalist who exposed the dumping of toxic waste, ...
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6 tanks at Hanford nuclear site in Wash. leaking
Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, federal and state offici...
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Thai government ordered to clean up polluted creek
A Thai court on Thursday ordered the government to clean up a lead-polluted creek and pay nearly $4 million in compensation to local villagers as part of ...
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